The Gozo Youth Wind Band in Concert is the title of this year’s edition of the Don Bosco Grand Concert – the annual concert of the Gozo Youth Wind Band.

As in previous years, the Gozo Youth Wind Band will introduce new arrangements in the local musical scene while keeping an eye to make the evening varied and appealing to the general public young and old.

The Gozo Youth Wind Band consists mainly of 50 Gozitan Youths who, after having pursued their musical studies both in Gozo and Malta on an individual basis, meet regularly in group to prepare an exciting and varied repertoires to be performed throughout the year.

The Gozo Youth Wind Band in Concert will be held on Sunday 3rd February, 2019 at 7.30 p.m. at the Oratory Don Bosco Theatre, Victoria, Gozo. The Gozo Youth Wind Band will be under the direction of Founder and Music Director Joseph Grech. Entrance is Free and patrons are requested to be seated 15 minutes before.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a musical with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The story is based on the “coat of many colours” story of Joseph from the Bible’s Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly (the first, The Likes of Us, written in 1965, was not performed until 2005).

The show has little spoken dialogue; it is almost entirely sung-through. Its family-friendly story, familiar themes and catchy music have resulted in numerous stagings. According to the owner of the copyright, the Really Useful Group, by 2008 more than 20,000 schools and amateur theatre groups had staged productions.

Joseph was first presented as a 20-minute “pop cantata” at Colet Court School in London in 1968, and was published by Novello and released by Decca Records in 1969. After the success of the next Lloyd Webber and Rice piece, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph received stage productions beginning in 1970 and expanded recordings in 1971 and 1972. While still undergoing various modifications and expansions, the musical was produced in the West End in 1973, and in its full format was recorded in 1974. The musical was mounted on Broadway in 1982. Several major revivals, national tours, and a 1999 straight-to-video film, starring Donny Osmond, followed.

This musical is the fourth consecutive one being produced by Teatru Astra in Victoria Gozo – following the successful debut in Grease (2016), the record-breaking Evita (2017) and the tour-de-force in Jesus Christ Superstar in March/April 2018.

Ticket reservations will be announced shortly.

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